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¾«Æ·Â鶹 Department of Humans, Environments, and Climate faculty member Valentine Cadieux presented her capstone thesis project and graduated from the Upaya Chaplaincy program in March. She read a sequence of poems from her thesis collection, /Being Breakers: Infrastructure for Caring and other Ways to Hold Climate Pain/, while inviting program participants and supporters to bodily explore the love of the land via a land-based rug she had woven as the final part of this project (see photo above). The eco-chaplaincy track of the Upaya program was the draw for Dr. Cadieux, who saw a need to expand the toolkit of self- and community-stewardship skills for addressing climate and environmental dynamics in a world in ongoing crisis. .